chore
[chawr, chohr]
- a small or odd job; routine task.
- chores, the everyday work around a house or farm.
- a hard or unpleasant task: Solving the problem was quite a chore.
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Origin of chore
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Contemporary Examples
Make the chore a lot more fun with a super cute toothbrush holder.
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Instead of a chore, choose something you love so you absolutely look forward to it.
That there was a way to tell the story and not have been leaden—not be a chore or an ordeal.
But for it to double its user base from the current level will be quite a chore, and may take several years.
Similarly, I learned that studying was a choice, not a chore.
Historical Examples
Somewhere on these six hundred acres was the herd and it was his chore to find it and bring it in.
DustMr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
"You said running errands was my chore," he reminded his mother.
Jerry's Charge AccountHazel Hutchins Wilson
The sooner he finished the sooner his mother might give him some other chore to do.
Jerry's Charge AccountHazel Hutchins Wilson
I had started for the store, but then remembered a chore I wanted him to do.
StopoverWilliam Gerken
He did not force him, he did many a chore for him, always picked the best piece of the meal for him.
SiddharthaHerman Hesse
chore
- a small routine task, esp a domestic one
- an unpleasant task
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Word Origin
C19: variant of Middle English chare; related to char ³
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Word Origin and History for chore
n.
1751, American English, variant of char, from Middle English cherre "odd job," from Old English cerr, cierr "turn, change, time, occasion, affair business."
Chore, a corruption of char, is an English word, still used in many parts of England, as a char-man, a char-woman; but in America, it is perhaps confined to New England. It signifies small domestic jobs of work, and its place cannot be supplied by any other single word in the language. [Noah Webster, "Dissertations on the English Language," 1789]
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